🏭 Industry in Focus, 27-05-2026: Two memory makers crossed $1 trillion in a week. HBM is the real ceiling on AI infrastructure.
🇺🇸 US home prices post their softest annual gain since 2023, with Zoom towns slipping into outright nominal decline
🌏 The EM recovery rested on three pillars. All three are cracking.
🇨🇳 China just classified AI researchers at DeepSeek and Alibaba alongside its nuclear scientists
🇬🇧 Iran's shipping disruptions are landing in UK shop prices, and the BoE's room to cut in June is shrinking
🇪🇺 The ECB is probably hiking in June. Its own financial stability team just warned the market isn't priced for the shock.
📈 The Strategy: 2026-05-27
📑 The Watchlist: 2026-05-27
📰 Daily Macro Roundup: 2026-05-27
🇨🇳 China's 41-month factory deflation just ended. The global disinflation subsidy went with it.